In Defence of Learning: The Plight, Persecution, and Placement of Academic Refugees, 1933-1980s
Language: English
Published by British Academy, 2011
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2011 British Academy hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1 'Protests Butter No Parsnips': Lord Beveridge and the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933-1938 by David Zimmerman; 2 A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the Founding Days of CARA by William Lanouette; 3 From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning: the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933-1964 by Paul Weindling; 4 Refugee Scientists in a New Environment by Gustav Born; 5 Max Perutz and the SPSL by Georgina Ferry; 6 Esther Simpson: A Correspondence by Paul Broda; 7 Eva and Esther by Lewis Elton; 8 'Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the German Nation in the World': Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), Founder of the Notgemeinschaft by Gerald Kreft; 9 Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United States, 1933-1945 by Tibor Frank; 10 In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British Federation of University Women by Susan Cohen; 11 Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists in Search of Social Democratic Practice by E. Stina Lyon; 12 Austrian Refugee Social Scientists by Christian Fleck; 13 Plutarch's Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee Historians to Historical Writing, 1945-2010 by Antoon de Baets; 14 Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic Refugees of the Second World War by Marina Yu. Sorokina; 15 Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948-1989 by Antonin Kostlan & Sona Strbanova; 16 'Bending the rules': South African Refugees in the UK, 1960-1980 by Shula Marks; 17 Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS-SPSL Collaboration by Alan Phillips.…
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- Title
- In Defence of Learning: The Plight, Persecution, and Placement of Academic Refugees, 1933-1980s
- Author
- Shula Marks (Ed.), Paul Weindling (Ed.), Laura Wintour (Ed.), David Zimmerman, William Lanouette, Gustav Born, Georgina Ferry, Paul Broda, Lewis Elton, Gerald Kreft, Tibor Frank, Susan Cohen, E. Stina Lyon, Christian Fleck, Antoon de Baets, Marina Yu. Sorokina, Antonin Kostlan, Sona Strbanova, Alan Phillips.
- Publisher
- British Academy
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0197264816
- ISBN 13
- 9780197264812
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